hi my name is jakub pawela i'm one of nocturn's developers together with friends we're gonna show you the nocturn gameplay,
final fantasy 7 3d print, nocturn is a strategy boardgame set in the fantasy underworld a realm of the dead occupied by a living nations, four of us will play as a rulers of these nations
while one of us will play as a death, the original sovereign of this world who will try to reclaim his lost lands, yes, and the rest of this video will be in polish language because we're poles and you can turn on english subtitles down below the video let's begin we start by drawing special cards, to choose our goals
each one of us draws two cards, and picks one give me them too thanks, (by fulfilling special cards we'll get additional renown points later - we need them to win) and the rejected we place back in deck everyone take a single dice, and we throw them to choose who will start 7! 4... 3 i'm the first
i never get to be the first after me is bartek(red player) we start by placing our capitals i want to have my capital here (capitals are a centers of our nations -we can't place them in adjacent provinces) i place my capital... hmm... ...here krzysiu(purple player)? panda(blue player) panda, you have left only north-east left,
go west, leave me east nope not here, it's adjacent to red capital yup, i can't (a last player has little to no freedom to place his capital but he will be the first to place his second fief in a moment) now, as a last player you can start placing the second fief now you krzysiu, (krzysiu(purple) placed his fief where kuba(white) wanted, the first player to place capital is the last to place a fief,
that's why kuba is bitter even though he started) now you bartek war! you can grant the fiefs to your houses (all fiefs belong to one of your houses - even your capital - so you don't directly control your lands) we all get gold chests yea, each of us gets 12 gold chests for the beggining you can pick one random technology card
(technology cards are divided into five decks: forests, mountains, rivers, desert, and sea we can draw one card from the decks we have access to) starting from me, i have access to desert... ...and i'll get a card from desert deck, bartek so i'll get a free card from sea deck, river please, i want river too,
don't peak, ok, now each one of you can place three men-at-arms units and a knights unit, and our lords i'll start, (houses own both your fiefs and your lords - don't make them too angry) (as you can see we are have two houses at the start, each of this houses has two lords, that we can now place on board/or leave on their house card) done (each lord have a fiefdom token on him,
with a visible sigil of a house he's a member of) (lords lead your armies, but don't lose too many of them in battles you'll be too slow for your opponents) done, next on which province did you place them? it's the same province, nope, there's a lake ah yes, these are seperate (as you can see the provinces have two kinds of borders: regular one (white line)
and a non-crossable ones: mountains, lakes, sea, desert, and the silver river (the big one on the left) ) okey, everyone are set up and ready, so we are starting first round, and we start with darkness phase, i draw two cards, and pick one ( maciek(death) draws two cards from darkness deck) i'll keep this one, and discard this one, maciek has finished, and we start second phase: so we start action phase, we all can execute actions,
and i start with moving (activating a house) what's that army doing so close? okay so i start with moving lords of one of my houses i activate the house (flip its action token) and i move my one lord to this province he takes with him one unit, and the second lord over here, done bartek turn,
i also activate one of my houses, the one with salamanders sigil and i move a lord like that next player i move that lord over there, that was a lady, done? yes i also make a movement (and we go again)
yea, back to me i use for building, a building action and i can build two new fiefs one i build as a march to protect myself from krzysiek(purple) and the second i build as a county over here, (i grant both new fiefs to my houses) now i control the border, it's mine (a fief in the center of the province is a county - it controls that province, a fief on the border is a march - it gives you control over that border's passage)
i also execute building action and i build two new fiefs, (building new fief cost three gold chests, remember - there can only be two fiefs on the province one march one county - no more) and i grant new fiefs to my houses, next player did you pay for those? nope
ups ( kuba(white) also tried to cheat...) i also didn't pay keep an eye on them krzysiu you're next i'm gonna build two new fiefs one on the border with panda(blue) here..? here? or here? there and the second one over here
another march, krzysiu is fortifyng just grant them to your houses (march's fiefdom token also shows on which province it was built on) can you place it in north on the border? now i'm also gonna build myself two fiefs here a county and here again back to me, grant your fiefs to someone
my turn to execute another action but i want to point out that i have counties... i also control a realm ok, wait a minute for me i have counties in all provinces with snake symbol, so i get the realm card and i have five renown points (crown symbols on the cards) and i can take a prince title that requires at least three renown points, we can give panda his...
let's wait til my turn bartek's turn... wait, i forgot to execute action in all that, i'll do tribute action, and i'll give tribute tokens to my houses (tribute tokens force houses to give you new units or simply pay you gold chests from every fief they have) my turn, and i develop for six gold chests a fief from castle into a city (development action) (each fief can be developed into a city or a citadel
city doubles tribute output from a fief, and citadel is hard to capture) i leave it there krzysiu your turn, (tribute action) get me two tribute tokens one heavy with knights and the second light with gold chests, okay, so for me... development... i mean technology action
ok, which cards? i want a card from river deck and another one too you take three cards to draw another river, so while we're at it i control all three provinces with a swan symbol ah, you'll be a king i'll also get a card for my ram i get an realm card and a king title
panda is a first king (he has now six renown points) and you can take a third house, but he needs first to grant them some lands so he'll take it later i'll quickly execute technology action (draws three cards and picks one to buy) bartek(red) you can go on, i'll do a tribute action, and i'll take two light tributes for money,
i buy alchemists card can you put it with the rest of gold chests? and i discard what i didn't buy are you done? yes i am done, me too i want a realm card, a goat, a ram, or whatever it is, and with my capital card i have four renown points
you get a prince title, and as for my action give me three technology cards, one from mountain deck, and the second river, sorry, two mountains, and one river ok my turn, and i want tributes one heavy with units, and one light with cash heavy with knights? and a heavy with cash?
a light with cash so we have all finished our four actions just waiting for krzysiu i'm a king i can execute six, right? in the next round you'll have six, panda not in the same you become king, or it would go too long i buy the technology for five chests, ok
these we put aside, and we finish action phase as all of us finished four actions which is our limit now, we go to the siege phase, but noone is besieging anyone so we are done with first round before we go to the next my technology cards give me... trade caravans give me three gold chests, but alchemists double that income, so i get six gold chests anybody gets anything besides me?
i have, ah after you i get three gold chests for.... for what? for my river barges i have the same and also get three gold chests do you have something bartek? i get nothing... ok, you're poor country we've finished the first round
we start the second round, with a darkness phase i draw two cards and take one, no omens yet? no omens. you have to wait for them so we finish darkness phase and start again action phase, bartek is a first player, he has first wanderer token,
yup, i execute tributes action so i collect the ones i gave earlier, and i get from my houses as follows: first my salamander house i get two gold chests for from castle in that province, two gold chests and a double tribute from the fief with a city, and i get six gold chests in total, from house with salamanders sigil
i flip the tribute token, and i leave it on the house card like that, the same with the second house, it gives me four chests for capital, and two for that march, a total of six gold chests you did the same tributes as me and i give new tributes tokens, the same as before that's it this round i'm the last, now is krzysiek turn tribute action,
so... you'll get the knights units, where do they go? here, and over there ok, place them in that one and the other province, can you place them? here? ok and the second house gives me two gold chests from a capital and the fief next to it
a total of six, yes, capital gives double tribute like a city, everyone done? i do tribute action too, and get two men-at-arms for a city, here and one from this fief, also i get six gold chests, from the other house with capital okay kuba
don't i get to assign new tributes? yes immediately, but you don't have to i forgot ok, give me twice light with men-at-arms i forgot also, is it too late? you didn't take yours? flip the used tribute tokens, which do you want? men-at-arms
men-at-arms? both tributes? yea two tributes with men-at-arms, are you done? so i'll instead do house activation and move... my lords one over here together with one unit and that's all
your turn for action so i'll be building.... well no, maybe just moving i activate my house with blue/red sigil and i move its lords, i have a special ability, listen to me oceangoing vessels exactly and because of it i can move through the sea like it was a regular border,
and i move a lord up there, seriously? you want to do this? your sea technologies, ah, you don't have any you've finished bartek? yes, so its krzysiek turn you're england because of all the red ok, give me technology cards
which? twice river, and one forests deck card river deck is getting empty so, my turn to choose also technologies? no i want to build two marches i mean i build two fiefs i pay six gold chests
and now, one over there an the other here he wants to close you in, and new fiefs go to my new house, ah, place them on your side not on mine sure, a, wait a minute panda, you can't build there why? you already have one march in that province,
only one march for each province, so let me build... there? ah you want tochange that one? no, this one, i can't place it there but i can put it here, on your side, wait a second, look there's already a march in that province also panda look you have a march there, that's shady panda
you can build something over there, here you already have a march yea you're right, but i can build it on this province that's what i wanted to do that's what he was planning, why exacty you build it there? panda is done i can move through the sea remember? let me pay four chests for that, maciek can you dispose of this cards?
now i'm building fiefs for six chests, didn't i had another chest? or not in another game and i build second fief here, and... here and give them to my houses you're giving them? yes i do
i don't have a new house since i'm only a prince right not a king like panda we only have one king at this moment ok, so i build... i have the worst special card, i build new fiefs, and it will be a fief here, and a fief here
then i grant these to my houses, and pay for them a total of six chests, six i can build three fiefs? two! ...what? ah yes, that one to this house and the other to this house krzysiu, your turn
colonies up north, there's a great technology for this situation, i move here, and only there... i execute call to arms action and i place lords of my new house on the board the ones from your third house, here, and here
to tell the truth, it may not be that good of a province, because he's surrounded by opponents he got a king title fast well but he have lots of lords yeah because he is a king, kuba, your turn i execute tribute action i get the same tributes, i get two gold chest from each fief four, five (...) a total of fourteen gold chests,
i'll get new tributes, fourteen, thanks, i'll assign new tributes, and i'm done ok, my turn, and i'll do my last action in this round, what's with that quiet scheming? i take three sea technology cards, i think we can have a truce in future i agree what? we'll have a north vs south?
it's just apact of non-agression don't look into his cards if he's showing them, he's picking a technology? so maybe we'll start with our... do you know what he can do? corsairs if he'll find corsairs he will steal from you he's choosing a technology card, you can go on krzysiu
so i'm building two fiefs, one here, and the other here, on our border? okay, and i pay six chests, what i'll do with your march? great echnology card, you're bad people place them on your side of border, take the rest of cards, i'll pay for the one i've chosen
put the chests over there, how many actions did you do? four? now is my tur, i move lords of this house, i activate it, and from here, i move to here, ah, i did something dumb, doesn't matter, sorry, i didn't moved the second lord of the house,
you move all lords belonging to the same house, i want to move him over there, that's it for red colonies, you ruffian, it means war! i think war was unavoidable, a border clashes, could i run? my turn? panda you didn't attacked?
can i attack his lord? sure so i have attacked him, whom do you attacked? ah him, we have a battle, so during other phase? no, you fight now, there's no seperate phase for battles
we choose our tactics i have porr chance, but maybe he won't win wait, you don't besiege my fief? no i only attack your lord there, so you'll have the colonies for a little while longer choose your tactics, who knows? doesn't matter which you'll choose you won't get extra dice, i know
come on, i've chosen, me too, and the winner is... it's a draw nobody gets extra dice, so each of you gets... i have only one, you both chose flanking? yes,
throw the dice, let's see... you're dead let me try! maybe i'll do some damage nothing, he kills your lord that was bad, with the six, panda kills bartek's lord, and the lord goes to death (maciek)
yeah, i have my first dead leave him alone, i knew i should've sent another lord there can i assign my new house a tribute? or is it too late? you could have earlier, you could, but you didn't do it, kuba your action, i execute technology action and draw...
three cards from mountain deck, i have access to mountains, and bartek you can go on with your action i can't i used my four action limit, nice he has used all his action so krzysiu your turn, i'm at my limit too, you don't have any title? you're a prince right? you have up to five actions.
i pass anyway, he can pass i also pass, but before that i buy this card i also pass, i buy salt mines for six gold chests, and i discard rest of the cards, i'm a desert nation, so you've finished all your actions?
end of the round? there are no sieges, so we end this round but we get the gold chests from our technology cards i get, the same as before, six chests i take four...six it's gonna be brutal capital counts as city? yes it does here,
so two chests for a city uuu, it's rough but it's a retribution right? what do you have? pirates? revenge! i also get three chests from river barges, done?
yes done, i use my corsairs, they fight to avenge the fallen lord, my nation's corsairs, they plunder your trade ships on the sea, so give me your four gold chests, seriously? that's because of your unprovoked aggression earlier, yea right,
you won't be free from my pirates, and that wasn't a provocation, building a fief over there? but it was empty, if you'd have amoney problems, i can always borrow you some and we're done, yes? you pass the first wanderer token, te end of the second round, and the token goes to krzysiu we start the third round,
we start with me, cause i play... we start with darkness phase, i draw two darkness cards, but instead of them i play the first omen whispers in the forests the first clue where i'll appear, i'm scared already and i discard these two cards bartek, do you want to resurrect your lord?
nope let's begin action phase, we start with krzysiu, he's first, i'll do tributes, and i'll get knights, you're doing another knights? no sorry, i meant men-at-arms, okay, place them where you want,
i get from this house, one, two... three and i'm placing them here, alright, and from this house also three... i mean four, can you get them over there? here? yeah, he's done with recruiting,
i'll do tributes too, which new tributes do you want? aha two light, with gold chests, ok, hand him over, so i'm doing the tributes too now, so i flip the token, how many men-at-arms do i get from the light tributes?
only one men-at-arms brigade, one, ok one over here, and other over there from what? capital gives double tribute, and another one... i get extra for a city, as capital counts as a city yeah, sure and give me three light tribute tokens with gold chests, three light tokens, here you go
my turn, and i use development action, for six chests, for six gold chests i develop a city over here, i develop this fief, sorry, aand done, so i'm doing tributes, i'm getting some money
in total, a four... six, eight... ...ten and with four it gives fourteen... eighteen gold chests? lemme count that again (counting again) sorry, sixteen gold chests,
sixteen chests? ok, he's rich exactly, and i'm assigning the same tokens as before, you're done? i am and we're back with krzysiu firstly i didn't take that realm card i control, card? since i control all provinces,
nope you don't, i have one of them, sneaky, so in that case i'm developing... this ah, you're developing fief into a city? citadel? city, and it costs me six, right? come to think about it...
i'll instead move, can you help me with that? from that province, this one? whom? with her? whom do you attack? i don't attack anybody ok, so move her here?
with a knights? a knights, and... two men-at-arms? and over there two men-at-arms to men-at-arms but she'll be left here, let her sit there, over here?
you have to move them with... ah i know, you're moving them with this lord, yes, now your turn i'll also move my lords, could it be, you're besieging? that small fief belonging to bartek? so you want to, you thief... and i move the second lord to besiege that fief,
you won't be pirating anymore, nope he won't where does he have his capital? far far away, now it's back to krzysiu, no, it's kuba turn, i execute build action, and for six chests... ...please give me a change from this, two gold chests, i build...
two fiefs, one over here, and the second... this token has to be on this side, and the other... from this side i've finished so, myself, for fifteen gold chests, aw panda, he's paying fifteen chests,
i buy, nope we are bidding, i'm paying fifteen chests for mercenaries, anyone else? no? does anyone have more? not me, only two chests, so mercenaries are mine for fourteen chests, you know that some part of that sum comes from your trading ships, right? and i sent them here,
bought with panda's money, i barely have a place for them, so i''ll send them on peace mission to panda, that's it for his turn? no, he's still doing an action, you could also besiege him, and you'll get a new title, i have... i can only develop one fief at once?
yes, only one or more if you have a special technology, so i'll be doing instead action... technology, i take three sea cards, we need to shuffle that deck, krzysiu, give me two cards from river deck, and one from forests,
rivers are done, shuffle them, yea, rivers are popular, i can do it, when he's done picking, and he hands over unselected, okay, so here, yea, you can start your turn, so i'll be moving this house, reinforcements?
some to the capital... no interesting card, what a waste of action... it happens, did you chose krzysiu? and with this lord to that province there, ok, krzysiu? yeah i buy this one, ok, so pay for it, can you take it maciek?
let's shuffle this deck, the unwanted get shuffled, and we put them back, forests would be much more affordable, now me? yeah, i'm done, your turn so i'd... i should have draw forests, i'm executing tributes action,
and i get men-at-arms brigade for each fief, two men-at-arms... three men-at-arms over here, and another three men-at-arms... here, this is natural border? you can't cross it? yeah, there are mountains so i can't cross i can't attack you from that side,
but from here yes, there goes two units, and what is left, i could have get another one, but i'm at my limit, can't take more, i flip the tokens, i take... new tokens with a knights and gold chests, i'm upgrading... and i develop...
i take it back, i execute build action, what's up krzysiu? suddenly there are armies? for three gold chests i build... here, a march, did i pay? three? ok, krzysiu turn? yes, yes i pass
ok, so i'll... it's not too admirable, i'll activate the house, one lord goes there, that's all, so i'll execute... a movement? with this house, and start a siege with this lord,
and what's important, i move with that lord this units, but as they moved with the second lord they can't help with a siege, they don't aid, so i'm activating the salamanders house, move there, and i'm done, krzysiu passed, so panda can execute one action more, yeah, but i pass anyway,
but krzysiu had a five action limit but he passed, so we're finished with action phase, time for sieges, yes, s we have one siege, with me and krzysiu, where's the second? there's a panda's siege also, so you're the first panda, i can't relief the siege?
you can't i'm besieging from my province, can't help them..? so i'm besieging, ah sorry, what i'm saying, you can relief the siege, you can some with relief, just our armies will stay on their provinces, so we can battle if you want, shouldn't panda assault firstly? nope reliefs are before assaults, so krzysiu do you want to fight my besieging army?
okay so we battle, you come to aid with these? let's start, so... two men-at-arms, one knight, and a lady? and on kuba's side? three men-at-arms and a lady what? don't show it too fast,
ah, yeah, you can see the tactic, yeah, it makes sense, i've chosen tactic, krzysiu? i'm not looking, (choosing tactics is the first part of the battle) counterattack, ha, my tactics beats yours, and because of that i get extra dice to footmen, so i'll have three dice,
i have them here, i get them for: one dice for lord a cavalry, and two dice for men-at-arms a footmen, and you two dice, tough luck, you didn't manage to surprise besieging army, and a first throw, and it's bad, six and seven?
he got good, damn he kills all my men-at-arms if he wants to no it's all he can't kill the lord before killing other units in army, so you've chosen better tactic, but blew it, and you've lost with them two dice, seven? two,
and he got seven, he killed my lord, dead lady to me, come on panda, our turn to brawl, come on i didn't kill anything i have two dice i have one (assault - panda has to throw seven plus) didn't succeed,
and i didn't do to you nothing, yup, throw them right, one... eight! i lost my fief... these wars are onesided, one side dies all, you've captured the fief, so replace it with yours, let me, if you have figures left, you'll be harassed by my corsairs til the end of game,
don't you lose them now? why? i still have access to sea, he still has his capital next to sea, we've finished the sieges, i get six chests, like before, six, take your incomes, i get three,
and you give me four, yes? you're at it again? i'll be doing it always, and i get five, he won't take from you, if you have nothing, or if you capture also his capital, he'll lose all sea technology cards, since he won't have an access to sea,
til you won't capture his capital, his pirates will trouble you, so, we've finished siege phase, and ended round three,
fourth round, we start with darkness phase
